Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. A. Konrath

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

Neil Gaiman

Authors know that you should never really write a funny book because funny books do not get awards. Comic novels will not get awards.

Mal Peet

Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

Gayle Lynds

Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?

Judy Kirkpatrick

We count on a combination of user reviews and the author-provided summary and bio to give the browsing customer information to make a decision. But in the future, we want to provide a way for users to preview the books and implement a forum where consumers can query the authors and debate.

Ernst Mayr

Most modern authors failed to distinguish between two very different phenomena: the production of a new taxon, and the production of a new phenotype.

Stephanie Laurens

Most books set in England between 1800 and 1840 have a 'Regency' feel. The reason that era is so useful for romance authors stems from the wide-ranging social changes that were occurring over that time, and the parallels, or echoes, those create with our time and the lives of our readers.

Kent Jarrell

Merck and the authors did everything in a proper scientific manner.

Chevy Stevens

It feels wonderful to get praise from other authors who I admire, but with each new book, my confidence is always the thing I struggle with the most until I start getting positive feedback from readers.

Constable Deforest

We've had a lot of positive feedback from the parents.

Dave Riggins

We really would like to get some feedback from consumers.

Mark Stevenson

We took a lot of feedback from people who were in the event. ... They wanted the route to be more difficult.

Piero Romano

Not only do they get to learn music and rhythms, but they got to learn about culture. Even if they are younger, they were interested and wanted to learn. It was a lot of fun and the feedback from the parents was amazing. These are songs that wake up the whole soul.

Dr. Bastian

Overall our feedback has been good. We're hopeful.

Nadine Lemmon

We're at the point where we would like to get public input. We want people to point out if there are other trails we should be looking at, if they have any kind of feedback on the trails or an ideas for them.

Tom White

We get so much positive feedback from the regulars that come here, who just say,

Carl DeFebo

We've gotten very, very positive feedback on this facility.

Minnie Driver

Sometimes, if it feels right to do something, you have to do it no matter what others think.

Corey Koskie

It was a long time. It feels good to be back here.

Laurie Graham

As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each day feels like a race that must be run.

Ariana Grande

When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

Delta Goodrem

I'm still human - I can't not feel.

Fritz Elmendorf

We've seen record numbers of bankruptcies every year. The lending industry feels there are a number of filings that are abusive and could have been avoided.

Wayne Gretzky

Todd feels worse about what happened than anybody, ... He has been punished and served his time.

Jason Elam

We were flying under the radar for a long time. Nobody gave us a whole lot of chance. It feels good to get a little respect, but we know we have a lot of work to do.

John Stocco

We wanted to be on. We just wanted to thank him for everything he's done, not just this year, but since he's been here. This is coach's day. It just feels great to send him out of here like this.

John Hall

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Brian Tracy

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Arianna Huffington

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Edward Abbey

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Alan Mulally

We were on a very positive track and this is just a sad thing for all of us,

Don Ward

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

C. S. Lewis

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Charles Fillmore

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

Norm MacDonald

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

William Wycherley

With faint praises one another damn.

Voltaire

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Myles Munroe

Praise must be learned in private before it is exhibited in public.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

John Gay

Praising all alike, is praising none.

Ben Jonson

There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned.

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Carnell Williams

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Nick Jones

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Linda Bannister

Things look bleak. It's unclear when things are going to start to look better.

Ron Ward

This is a terrific opportunity, and I can't wait to really start contributing.

John Silvia

This is a surprisingly strong start of the year.

Greg Knapp

This is the first year that he's starting off in the same offense, healthy, back-to-back.

Jeff Kish

This is not how I wanted to start the New Year.

Jim Parsons

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

Brett Lee

If you can’t get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life

Aravind Adiga

Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

Jane Campion

The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative.

Carson McCullers

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

Al Gore

All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.

Jane Asher

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

bell hooks

We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.

Al Golden

You never know it as well as you think until you have to be the teacher,

Ian Millward

And, until we get that right, we're not going to win games.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

Daniel Handler

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Christopher Walken

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Anne Rice

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

Andy Samberg

Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.

Anne Frank

How wonderful it is that we can start doing good at this very moment.

Anne Frank

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Thom Gunn

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

Susan Lucci

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.